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Neuroscience News: A Link Between Hearing Loss and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Reporting by Hainan Lang, M.D., Ph.D.


A cross-disciplinary team of researchers in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has discovered hearing impairment in a preclinical model of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).


More specifically, the researchers report in the Journal of Neuroscience that they observed mild hearing loss and defects in auditory nerve function.


Closer examination of the nerve tissue revealed...


Read the original article on Neuroscience News here.

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